Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Autobiography of a Physicist, Complete in Two Volumes

Dumond, Jess W.M. DuMond · 1976

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Pasadena, California, Self-published, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Complete in two volumes, an engaging autobiography by the California-based physicist, Jesse William Monroe DuMond (July 11, 1892 – December 4, 1976). Stiff blue card-stock bindin...

The California White Cap Murders: An Episode in Vigilantism

Helen Rocca Goss · 1969

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Santa Barbara, California, Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, for the author, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A Fine condition copy from the personal library of the owner of California Collectible Books, in Martinez, California, Lloyd Mason. Bound in an octavo...

Salted Tories: The Story of the Whaling Fleets of San Francisco

Hare, Lloyd C. M. · 1960

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Mystic, CT, Marine Historical Association, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a fine work of Western Americana, being a social historical survey of the whaling fleets off San Francisco, California; nothing fancy,...

Alta California's Four Fortresses

Whitehead, Richard S. · 1986

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Los Angeles, California, Zamorano Club, 1986. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine reprint edition from the Zamorano Club of the original publication from the Southern California Quarterly, LXV (Spring 1983). Big, tall, pumpkin-colored wraps, front bot...

Mexican Tales: A Compilation of Mexican Stories and Legends with Maps and Complete Travel and Shopping Directory

Bernice I. Goodspeed · 1937

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Mexico City, Mexico, Bernice I. Goodspeed, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Currently the only exemplar available that is both in the true First Edition state and SIGNED by the author. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and s...

Minerals of the Montmorillonite Group: Their Origin and Relation to Soils and Clays

Ross, Clarence S. and Sterling B. Hendricks · 1945

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Big, tall softpaper wraps-bound, Professional Paper 205-B, bound in gray wraps, staple-bound, sunned along edges, else clean, unmarked of interior. Plentiful...

Mesa Verde National Park

Mesa Verde National Park · 0

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Mesa Verde, Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Stiff cardboard covers in tan and brown, comb-binding, housed in a sleeve, a collection of fine black-and-white photographs and other illustrations from the Mesa Verde ...

Guide to the Lava Tubes of Central Oregon

Purcell, David · 1978

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Corvallis, Oregon, Self-published, 1978. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Second Printing of a popular guide for Central Oregon spelunkers. Illustrated, printed vanilla-colored stiff card-stock wraps, staple-bound, and replete with black-and-white ill...

Pacific Northwest and Alaska

1949

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

, Union Pacific System, 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of stiff card-stock covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Green covers,...

Die Religion Der Alten Chinesen

Grube, Wilhelm · 1911

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Tubingen, Germany, J.C.B. Mohr, 1911. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and internally sturdy. Sunning to, chipping of softpaper wraps, chips missing from spine head and foot, else clean and u...

The Chumash and Costanoan Languages

Kroeber, A.L. · 1910

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1910. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Good condition copy of the 1910 First Edition of Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 237-271, from November 19, the University of California Publications in American Archaeology and...

The History of Contraceptives

Peers, Rotha · 1967

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Santiago de Chile, University of Chile, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking set of conference papers from the 8th Conference of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, held in Santiago, Chile, 9-15, 1967, prepared for the Medical Co...

The Malacia Tapestry

Aldiss, Brian W. · 1996

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Norwalk, Connecticut, Easton Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Eight illustrations hors-text by G.B. Tiepolo and Francesco Maggiotto including in full-color, full-page at frontis, make this an especially welcome addition to the Masterpieces of Fan...

Pavo Californicus, a Fossil Peacock from the Quaternary Asphalt Beds of Rancho la Brea

Miller, Loye Holmes · 1909

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1909. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. No additional exemplars available currently on-line. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of printed card stock wraps, staple-bound, less to text-bl...

The Dendrograph

McCammon, Rchard B. and Guenther Wenninger; Daniel F. Merriam, ed. · 1970

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Lawrence, Kansas, State Geological Survey, The University of Kansas, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight bindi...

Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society

A.W. Bennett · 1897

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

London, England, Library of the Royal Microscopial Society, 1897. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies available on-line currently. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturd...

Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

W. Outram Tristram · 1894

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Macmillan and Co., 1894. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Very Good condition, structurally sound copy of apparently the original First Edition, from the pages of the English Illustrated News. Illustrated plentifully, on virtually ever page, by Hugh Thomson and Herbert...

Claes Oldenburg: Penguin New Art 4

Johnson, Ellen H. · 1971

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

Middlesex, England, Penguin, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Former price-stic...

Indians of the Mesa Verde

Watson, Don · 1953

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa Verde National Park, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of bright red card-stock covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor h...

Funfzig Bilder Zu Virgils Aeneide. Bild- U. Textband. Mit Erlauterndem Text Und Einer Charte. Die Darin Beschriebenen Gegenden Und Monumente Darstellend Wie Sie Jetzt Noch Vorhanden Sind

Frommel, C. [Carl Ludwig / Karl Ludwig] · 1828

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.25 | ¥28,744)

Carlsruhe, Germany, Kunst-Verlag, 1828. . Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC. It tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travels to Italy where, in effect, he founds Rome. A Wikipedia entry abou...